Category: Research

Published finding may open doors to unraveling mysteries of these powerful entities STONY BROOK, NY, September 12, 2019 – A team of scientists including Will Farr, PhD, an astrophysicist at Stony Brook...

STONY BROOK, NY, September 9, 2019 – Cognitive impairment with the potential for early onset dementia in 911 World Trade Center responders is continuing to be investigated by researchers monitoring the health of...

STONY BROOK, NY, September 5, 2019 – Two Stony Brook University faculty have received Department of Energy (DOE) Particle Accelerator Research grants totaling more than $600,000 to advance their research. Arjun K...

Clinical Trial Provided at Stony Brook Cancer Center STONY BROOK, NY, September 3, 2019 – A drug developed by researchers at the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University that targets enzymes involved in...

Supercomputing to Improve Understanding of Today’s Greatest Challenges Stony Brook, NY, August 15, 2019 – The Institute for Advanced Computational Science (IACS) at Stony Brook University has received a $6.3 million...

Blazing fast system will serve as testbed for computational studies with support from NSF grant Stony Brook, NY, August 15, 2019 – A $5 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to the Institute of...

STONY BROOK, NY, July 23, 2019 — Creatures that transition from low to high elevations must evolve because of extreme changes in temperature, oxygen and other factors. Genetic changes are necessary for species to...

New AMNH paper provides first reconstructions of some extinct species and a computer-aided map of the seaway STONY BROOK, NY, July 8, 2019 – A new paper to be published in the Bulletin of the American Museum of...

STONY BROOK, NY, May 30, 2019 – How food production entered sub-Saharan Africa some 5,000 years ago and the ways in which herding and farming spread through the continent in ancient times has long been a topic of...

STONY BROOK, May 8, 2019 – Stony Brook University and the Center for Sustainable Energy® (CSE) have signed a memorandum of understanding to support, foster and accelerate the development of clean and sustainable...

STONY BROOK, NY, May 6, 2019 – Tyrannosauroid dinosaurs have a long evolutionary history and include iconic giants like Tyrannosaurus rex. Now an international team of researchers including Alan H. Turner, PhD, from...

Stony Brook, NY, April 24, 2019 – Dr. Il Memming Park and three Stony Brook early career research colleagues took the stage on April 23, and presented their high risk, high reward concepts to a panel of...

STONY BROOK, NY, April 12, 2019 – It is known that sensory stimuli – especially powerful ones like taste – are affected by expectation, which is a trigger to improving stimuli detection, distinction and reaction. Yet...

STONY BROOK, NY, April 12, 2019 – The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS) $434,000 to advance research that will help scientists understand the global...

STONY BROOK, NY, April 5 , 2019 – Sea urchins have no eyes, yet they can respond to light and accurately react to visual stimuli by way of photoreceptor cells distributed across numerous “tube feet,” which are small...

STONY BROOK, NY, April 3 , 2019 – Imagine if humans could evolve or learn how to shrink their bodies and certain organs for periods of time in order to preserve their functions. While this is not currently possible...